M. J. Rose Quotes

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

Usually I don't comment on comments of others.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there's a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you're around.

I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.

Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting against a tidal wave of cheap ebooks on Amazon.

If I was to get into Twitter I'd expose myself to people who adore me or people who absolutely hated me. Neither of those are useful to my soul.

I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'

I'm so flattered that at 69, people are booking me and finding me on Instagram.

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.

I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.

MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively.

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.